Cream-separator.



, G. WALKER.

CREAM SEPARATOR.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 28l 1904.

0000000000 mun 1% names Ow/5m W PATENTED DEC. 13, 1904.

N0.777,64e6. Patented December 13, 1904 IINITED STATES PATENT C arion.

CHARLESWALKER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO LIBERTY ASSO- CIATION, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, A CORPORATION.

CREAM SEPAFIATQFI,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,646, dated December 13, 1904.

Application filed May 28, 1904" Serial No. 210,279. (No 1110(lGl.l

To whom it y con/(WW1 foraminous material, the size of the perfora- Beitknown thatLCI-IARLns VVnmcnmacititions or meshes decreasing downwardly, so 5 zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, that the upper disk has the coarsest perforain the county of Cook and State of Illinois, tions and the lower disk the finest. The perhave invented new and useful Improvements forations 13 in the side of the pan are all bein Cream-Separators, of which the following low the lower disk, so that the milk must all is a specification. pass through the disks before escaping. 5 5

hisinvention relates particularly to cream- In use the device is placed in a vessel of waseparators of that class in which the milk is ter and the milk is poured into the funnel and IQ caused to flow through water in a large numflows down the tube through the screens or ber of line streams or jets, whereby the globdisks and out into the water in a finely-divided ules are exposed to the intimate action of the state. In the passage of the milk through 60 water to rapidly and effectively produce the the screens its globules are finely divided or separation of the cream. broken up, so that when it passes into the wa- 5 In the apparatus hereinafter described the ter the cream escapes and rises at once, whence milk is caused to flow through a series of it may be removed in the ordinary manner. screens or perforated plates of gradually finer The necessity of waiting for cream to rise by 6 5 mesh, the effect of which is to-break up the natural separation is thus avoided. The deglobules of milk and release the cream therevice is so constructed that it may be readily from. separated to be cleaned. Upon removal of The device is illustrated in the accompanythe cover 9 from the pan 10 the disks ILwhieh ing drawings, in which are loose in the pan, may be taken out and 70 Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a centhe parts cleaned separately. tral vertical section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal I claim 5 section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. 1. A cream-separator comprising a closed Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 inpan, a series of spaced screens therein, the dicates a tube of suificient height say twentyside of the pan having perforations below the 7 5 four inchesto reach to the bottom of a veslowest screen, and a tube extending into the sel of water. This tube has at the top a funtop of the pan.

3 nel 7 ,with a joint 8 to facilitate separation and 2. A cream-sepa *ator comprising a pan, an the cleaning of the parts. At the lower end inlet-tube having at the lower end an annular the tube terminates in a horizontal annular disk forming a cover for the pan, a series of 80 disk 9 of proper size to fit over and form a spaced screens in the pan, and an outlet from I cover for the pan (indicated at 10) and is held the pan below the lowest screen. in place by the curved wire arms or rods 11, 3. A cream-separator comprising a covered which engage under straps 12 on diametricpan, an inlet-tube into the top thereof, and a ally oppositesidcs of the pan. series of spaced superposed screens in the pan, 8 5

The pan 10 has a solid bottom; but the side of gradually liner mesh toward the bottom,

walls thereofare perforated with a plurality the pan having perforations in the side there- 4 of line perforations (indicated by 13) through of below the lowest screen.

which the milk is discharged. Within the In testimony whereof I havesigned myname pan is a series of disks, (indicated at 14,) three to this specification in the presence of two sub- 9 being shown, this number usually being found scribing witnesses. sufiicient. These disks are provided with anc p 1 '1 a r a supported by legs 15, the lower disk resting (JHALLEE) VALIXLR on the bottom of the pan and the upper disks Witnesses: on the ones below them. As above stated, SIeNA FnL'rsKoe, the lower disks are perforated or made of H. G. BA'rcnnLon. 

